Word: thaddeus
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Doyle described the forewarned colonists' resistance to Major Pitcairn's British Regulars ("General Parker will steady his men and exhort them to courage..."), and General Thaddeus Parker's famous order, "Don't fire until fired upon, but if they will have war, let it begin here...
Among the 59 scholars elected, two are Harvardprofessors. They are Professor of Astronomy andApplied Physics Patrick Thaddeus and Professor ofSocial Anthropology, Emeritus John W.M. Whiting
Both the retinoblastoma and Duchenne genes were located by comparing DNA strands from healthy and diseased cells. The retinoblastoma team, led by Ophthalmologist Thaddeus Dryja of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, found that there are actually two genes in healthy people that protect against the eye cancer -- probably by ordering production of a protein that prevents cells from multiplying uncontrollably. People born with both of these genes intact can usually sustain damage to one without developing retinoblastoma. But those born with one damaged gene nearly always lose the other and develop the disease...
ROLLINS. Five years ago, when Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., had a reputation as a fun-in-the-sun country club, President Thaddeus Seymour ordered studies of what ailed the place and how it might be cured. The studies concluded that small was good, and the best way for Rollins to upgrade was to build on strong points and dump weak departments...
Kumite is a two-person exercise in which the aim is total communication. Eva Thaddeus '86, president of the Shintaido club, describes Kumite as a "response to your partner's movements...